Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death.
Fingarette goes on to discuss living a.
He thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world for me, death as the conclusion of a story, life as ceremony, and life as a tourist visit to earth.
He examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation.
Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death